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Accented as it was, "del ano" in Italian means "of the anus." Benito Mussolini has always found that the best defense is to be offensive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Giddy Year | 6/23/1941 | See Source »

...Young is most widely known for an operation commonly used for relieving prostate trouble, which afflicts one out of every five middle-aged men. He makes an incision in front of the anus and "shells out" the enlarged lobes of the prostate. His punch operation started the removal of prostatic enlargements through the natural urinary opening. He also designed radical operations for cancer of the prostate, a number of operations to treat hermaphrodites, restore them to their predominant sex. One "girl" whom he turned into a man fell in love with an Institute nurse and married her. His enormous tome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Urology & Anecdote | 10/14/1940 | See Source »

...Godino link was 24 in. in circumference, 3 in. long. Within a few hours of Lucio's death, Dr. Wertheim perforated Simplicio's anus, brought down the blind end of the gut, snipped it open and stitched it to the rim of the new opening...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Siamese Severed | 12/7/1936 | See Source »

Genitoplasty. Dr. Young told how a boy who was born without an anus acquired one through Dr. Young's bold plastic surgery. Such children, if they survive, must empty their bowels through a "colostomy" hole in their abdominal walls. Dr. Young's patient, now a college senior, functions normally. Other patients of Dr. Young were apparent hermaphrodites whom he made into sexually functioning men or women according to the dominance of male or female hormones. One girl "only shaves once a week" since Dr. Young removed a virilifying tumor from one of her ovaries. Another case...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Southern Doctors | 11/30/1936 | See Source »

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